Re: Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility
Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> writes:
> For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch
> on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away
> from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the
> debian-installer partition management tool. This was my first time
> using SATA, LVM, and RAID -- I figured I'd play with all the new
> buzzwords while I had the opportunity -- and partman made it all quite
> simple!
>
> Once I had my system up and running, I decided to go back and tweak a
> couple things in the partitioning / LVM / RAID scheme. After looking
> for a bit, I didn't find a utility [1] quite as good as partman for
> this task, so I fell back to the command line utilities fdisk, lvm,
> and mdadm. My sense of it is that there isn't a tool packaged in
> Debian to fill this need -- although feel free to give suggestions at
> this point.
>
> I suggest one of two things, or if there's time both! 1. Port partman
> from debian-installer to make it a full fledged utility. 2. Port
> whatever tool Red Hat uses [2] for this same task and package it for
> Debian. I haven't used the latter, so the former would be my
> preference. Can someone more familiar with partman and
> debian-installer give an indication of how much work this would be?
>
> Cheers!
> Shaun
>
> [1] qtparted is a nice tool, but doesn't handle LVM or RAID yet as far
> as I know. webmin-lvm is a capable looking tool though.
>
> [2] I think this tool might be called DiskDruid, but I'm quite out of
> touch with Red Hat state-of-the-art.
FYI: Martin Loschwitz (madkiss) is working on the Yast partitioner
module (from SuSe), part of the Yast for Debian project.
MfG
Goswin
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